Understanding Social Change

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1. Ordering Lives

   Family, Work and Welfare, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Gordon Hughes, Ross Fergusson

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It...

   Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
2. Knowledge and the Social Sciences

   Theory, Method, Practice, 2nd Edition

   Edited by David Goldblatt

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences included, must be seen and understood in their social context. It argues that the social sciences both describe and transform their object of study, though rarely in ways...

   Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
3. The Natural and the Social

   Uncertainty, Risk, Change, 2nd Edition

   Edited by STEVE HINCHLIFFE, Kathryn (Kath) Alison Woodward

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.The Natural and the Social draws on...

   Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
4. Questioning Identity

   Gender, Class, Nation, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Kath Woodward

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of...

   Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
5. A Globalizing World?

   Culture, Economics, Politics, 2nd Edition

   Edited by David Held

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments? A Globalizing World...

   Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
6. Knowledge and the Social Sciences

   Theory, Method, Practice

   Edited by David Goldblatt

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Published July 5th 2000 by Routledge
7. A Globalizing World?

   Culture, Economics, Politics

   Edited by David Held

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Published May 31st 2000 by Routledge
8. Ordering Lives

   Family, Work and Welfare

   Edited by Gordon Hughes, Ross Fergusson

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Published April 12th 2000 by Routledge
9. The Natural and the Social

   Uncertainty, Risk, Change

   Series: Understanding Social Change

   Published March 1st 2000 by Routledge
10. Questioning Identity

    Gender, Class, Nation

    Edited by Kath Woodward

    Series: Understanding Social Change

    Published December 22nd 1999 by Routledge